Under the agreement, Grupo Hevi is deploying Cedar Point's SAFARI C3Multimedia Switching System to deliver high-quality, highly-reliabletelephone service to subscribers in Aguascalientes, Nuevo Laredo, PuertoVallarta and Tampico as part of a bundled package of voice, video andhigh-speed data services.

TVC, a Cedar Point reseller and support partner for the Latin American andCaribbean markets, assisted Cedar Point in the completion of the agreement.

"Our initial deployments in conjunction with Cedar Point have proven boththe value of VoIP and the ability of SAFARI C3 to simply andcost-effectively meet our needs," said Axel Vielma, CFO of Grupo Hevi. "Welook forward to building on our initial success and to providing newservices and telephony features to our subscribers in these additionalmarkets, as Cedar Point continues to add increased capabilities to SAFARIC3."

"Grupo Hevi's rollout of VoIP has been a textbook example of how to dothings right," said Chris Zanyk, vice president, sales, North AmericaRegion and CALA for Cedar Point Communications. "Their commitment tooutstanding product performance and quality customer service in theirinitial rollouts has provided models that can be replicated for continuedsuccess throughout their footprint in Mexico."

Cedar Point has shipped more than four million SAFARI C3 lines to customersin the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. SAFARI C3 supports up to250,000 lines of capacity in less than a cubic yard of space, incorporatingall of the components that make up the voice switching infrastructure. Itis being deployed for residential and business services by a diversecustomer base that includes Cable System Operators, Competitive LocalExchange Carriers (CLECs), Wireless Operators and Universities.

About Grupo Hevi

Grupo Hevi is a leading Mexican MSO, with operations in more than 45 citiesin Mexico, in the States of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Michoacán, Colima,Nayarit, Guanajuato and Tamaulipas.

It is focused on providing the best class of next generation services inits markets and plans to expand its operations by acquiring other cableoperators in the country.

With the commercial brands: Telecable / Hypercable, Grupo Hevi offers thebest video entertainment to more than 300,000 subscribers. GRUPO Hevi hassuccessfully deployed Cybercable, its high speed internet brand, servingmore than 70,000 subscribers.

It is owned by local investors, with headquarters in Guadalajara, Jalisco.Grupo Hevi's CEO, Héctor Vielma, has been president of CANITEC, (Nationalchamber of the CATV industry) among other important positions in theMexican CATV industry.

For more information about Grupo Hevi, please visit www.grupohevi.com.mx

About Cedar Point Communications

Cedar Point Communications' integrated switching platform enables thescalable, simplified and cost-effective delivery of VoIP and multimediaservices for communication providers and network operators. Designed toprovide carrier-class performance and reliability, while increasing networkintegrity, security and privacy, Cedar Point's SAFARI C3 MultimediaSwitching System supports legacy circuit, NCS and SIP-based voice services,as well as a migration path to IMS. The company is based in Derry, NH withoffices in Meersburg, Germany, and Sophia Antipolis, France. For moreinformation, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com.

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